When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman stat...e of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The exampl...e usually is: "he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill,... Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have defeated them all.... I was left with some money to battle with the world when quite young, and at the present time have mu...ch to feel proud of.... The Lord gave me talent, and I know I have done good with it.... For my brains have made me quite independent and without the help of any man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I never thought of anything but a long full life with my love, but a heavy foreboding hit me about two years into this planned ...bliss, when he said firmly that we must never go back to the fishing village where we had spent our first Christmas. And a cruel mixture of disbelief and sadness filled me as I came to understand how thoroughly and firmly he stood by his conviction, that if people know real happiness anywhere, they must never expect to find it there again.... So that year we went to Nuremberg, and the next year Strasbourg and and and, but we never returned to any place we had been before, because once, according to his private calendar, we had been there. And in a few more years we parted. You might say that we ran out of places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall ...give him no peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let children know you are human. It's important for children to see that parents are human and make mistakes. When you're sorry ab...out something you've said or done, apologize! But don't sound guilt ridden. It is best when parents apologize in a manner that is straightforward and sincere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »